“The ‘wall of separation between church and State’ is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned. It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history . . . The establishment clause had been expressly freighted with Jefferson’s misleading metaphor for nearly forty years . . . There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the framers intended to build a wall of separation . . . The recent court decisions are in no way based on either the language or intent of the framers . . . But the greatest injury of the ‘wall’ notion is its mischievous diversion of judges from the actual intentions of the drafters of the Bill of Rights.” ~Justice William Rehnquist(in dissent of Wallace v Jaffree, 1984)